Google is integrating Google+ into Gmail so that users of the social network can email you, even if they're complete strangers that don't have your email address

Email usually feels like a private place on the Web (for the most part). It's not like Facebook, where anyone in the world can easily find you by name and try to contact you. In other words, you'd expect to find a message from an old acquaintance on Facebook, but not in your private email if you've never exchanged addresses -- until now.

According to the Gmail Blog, Google is integrating Google+ into Gmail so that users of the social network can email you, even if they're complete strangers that don't have your email address.

Gmail users will see a new setting called "Email via Google+" in the coming days, although Google said it wouldn’t be functional right away. When the feature is turned on, Google will email users to let them know it's active.

The feature doesn't reveal your email address to the other Google+ user that decided to contact you, and you also won't receive Google+ mail in your "Primary" inbox, but rather the "Social" tab.

If you're not interested in taking part, users can opt out by selecting the "no one" option for the feature's settings.

Google is clearly determined to make Google+ a service people actually use, as the social network has been pretty quiet since its summer 2011 release.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt made his 2014 predictions for Bloomberg TV recently, and he said his biggest mistake was missing the train when it came to social networking, but added that that won't be the case in 2014.

"The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon," said Schmidt. "Not a mistake we’re going to make again. I guess in our defense we were busy working on many other things, but we should have been in that area and I take responsibility for that."

If you use Twitter in any capacity whatsoever you are a TURD. Why post your boring life on Facebook when you can skype or email and communicate even easier with those so-called relatives all over the world? Or is that your excuse for posting your life on social media to show off to others and pretend that anyone cares at all about your lame life?

I don't say this to you directly, just in general about social media and people that use it.